#maybe this is controversial maybe its not

[animentality]

my controversial opinion of the day is that while I love star trek for being pretty progressive for its day and age... I think the only reason that Benjamin Sisko didn't start off as a captain was because of racism.

I think they wanted to cast a black man as the lead but maybe producers or some shit got scared and decided but we cant have him be a captain. let's be progressive but not too progressive.

why is the only black male lead of star trek only a commander when he started?

you can argue in universe reasons all you want.

but they made him a commander, even though even Behr says he's too old to be a commander.

I love ds9 and all, but someone pointed this out to me, and it's been bothering me since.

I know that star trek was made in another time, and it was verrrry progressive for its time...

they should've let him be a captain from the start.

him being a commander.... hm, no.

nope.

[electraslight]

heyo, its been a long time since i did an analysis!! this time on a more controversial subject: Rook Blonko. And how I think he was robbed.

When you actually look at the way Rook is written in omniverse, they dont give him very much to work with. like revvonaganders and their culture are cool, but rook feels so underdeveloped as a person outside of his culture. hes kind of a gwen in a way; hes got bare minimum flaws but he's treated like hes in the right when hes doing something actually flawed. hes never condemned for treating ben the way he does and he doesnt even have a consistent arc. he doesnt feel like a teenager, he doesnt feel like he has any sort of character progression, hes just kinda there, and his lack of depth in character-to-character situations is only amplified by the lack of holding him accountable for negative traits he possesses, instead punishing ben or ignoring the behavior. Instead of writing a scenario where Rook is in the right and ben is in the wrong, or showing rook behaving poorly and have him learn from his actions, i can hardly think of a time where rook was shown to be wrong for his treatment of ben.

For example in a scenario where Ben is keeping personal information from Ben, and rook wants to know it for the sake of their partnership, instead of portraying Ben in the wrong properly by showing his keeping of said information being harmful to the public or his friendship to rook, or have the information be personally important to rook making Ben's keeping of it harmful, instead rook has scoured Ben's file for all information and is asking about something that is of no matter to him entirely because he doesn't know it. He pesters Ben incessantly even when Ben has told him firmly no. Tjis is a recurring issue, where it seems like the story wants rook to be right but is ignoring context and the way he goes about it.

This would be an aggravating issue but ignorable if rook had anything resembling a consistent arc, but he doesn't. the conflict of rook idolizing ben and meeting him and realizing hes not what rook thought he was is interesting, but its always treated as if bens in the wrong for not living up to rooks expectations. rook overstepping his boundaries with ben due to being a huge fan and maybe cultural differences is interesting, but its never portrayed as a flaw on rooks end, more like bens fault for keeping the information. his struggle with his culture and staying connected with it, his conflict with his father about his career path, his relationships to his siblings, him slowly watching revvonah be plundered for its resources as the series goes on, i love that, thats genuinely interesting. but they never talk about it outside of those episodes. rook is in the wrong often and it brings up a lot of interesting questions about him as a person, but they dont talk about that in favor of treating him as bens babysitter, or setting up a joke where ben is the punchline.

It's disappointing to me that rook was never given the attention he deserved. Like i said, there's a lot of good stuff in his framework that's just begging to be explored, but his lack of an arc makes him feel so one note after a while and really dampens his relationship with ben. Since rook is not a character on the same level as ben, he feels less like an equal like they tried to illustrate and more of a plot device. They even threw away the most interesting conflict between ben and rook; rook being book smart and ben being street smart, experience over training. Ben and Rook hardly ever have issues based on this other than rook misunderstanding a joke. This is why rook and ben feel like such a flat relationship to me.

all of this to say: rook fans. Please, for the love of god, work your magic. He's got all the pieces there, and i am certain you can do something special in fanworks about him. Don't let the show being lackluster hold you down.

[daisies-on-a-cup]

actually you know what if you make will's dad an abusive parent i cant say i trust you much

[dukeofthomas]

Here's my controversial opinion; if you're trying to write Bruce as a non-abusive, good parent, you should also write him respecting his kids' privacy, boundaries, and not stalking&surveying them.

[usertoxicyaoi]

found this super interesting. this person below is an acting coach and scriptwriter that's worked on/working on: kinnporsche (2022), only friends (2023), playboyy (2023) and mansruang (2023):

[blanketforcas]

less "straight but X as their exception" more recognizing bisexuality

[normalbirb]

I mostly referenced jeans from the mens section for this

[bmpmp3]

sorry to be a bit of a hater but i do wish youtubers weren't so scared of making their videos just like, "reviews", whys everything gotta be a "video essay" all the time. every day my recommendations are filled with 40 minute videos titled "_____: An Underrated Masterpiece" where the first like five minutes are reading the wikipedia definition of "masterpiece" in a somber voice with dramatic themed text on screen. please just tell me how good or bad you think something is and use the rest of the runtime to explain why. you dont need to put on all these airs

[solid-white]

I've run into a small (91 and counting) amount of Medic x Heavy ship art. And it's funny to me because people make Medic the bottom and, best case scenario, a power bottom. He legit treats everyone like a piece of showcase art, he'd be a top for sure.

[serenashido]

shipping renkaza fucking sucks because you either get people who hate real enemies to lovers and call it toxic or pr*ship because they actually are enemies who want to kill each other instead of friends who bicker sometimes (these people are the weakest link and will not survive the winter)

or you get people who do ship it but only in the gooner dumbing-it-down-to-hardcore-porn way where they romanticize and get off to abuse and r*pe (these people are just gross sick individuals and i hope they go extinct)

and the few people who do see the emotional depth in the homoerotic minutes renkaza spent together and the potential in that for top tier doomed yaoi are few and far in between and i rarely find good fics that aren't just insanely ooc porn

[aroaceleovaldez]

i would like to say my ideal PJO adaptation (if i was being physically forced against my will to have to pick a live action adaptation over an animated one for some reason) would be a combo like writing of the musical + casting of the show + visuals of the movies

BUT the show actually does have the playwright for the musical as one of the major writers for like three episodes and that did nothing for it. so...

[ween-kitchens]

if i see one more person claiming eloise is being a bad person because she is telling penelope that she shouldn't lie about who she is to the love of her life, i am going to start using firearms

[dukeofthomas]

I need people to realize how horrible 'stalking/constant surveillance/breaking into each other's homes is how the Batfamily show love' is. Like i really need someone to just acknowledge how horrific saying this bullshit is.

Like even fics where they're shown as happy and healthy and with good ties, you've always got this thing where none of them have privacy or any boundaries with each other. Which is directly antithetical to actually having good relationships. And this invasion via hacking and stalking and breaking into homes is portrayed as a positive, good thing; it's just how they show love and care to each other, after all. But for some reason I just personally don't find stalking, lack of privacy or boundaries, and emotional manipulation funny, endearing, or healthy, and just end up disgusted at the attempt to sweep it all under the rug.

[transwolvie]

Okay I'm gonna be a bit controversial nobody take this personally I just have some Thoughts as a person of color

I don't like the idea that it's necessarily good, fair, or just for Thistle to be dead at the end, even if you do read it that way. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of associating his death with freedom, considering that he was a slave. I think that an enslaved person will always deserve to have a free life ahead of them rather than supposedly "finding" freedom in death, and considering Ryoko Kui's obvious thoughtfulness towards racial dynamics and slavery, I don't think that she would necessarily agree that death=true freedom either. To be free is to be alive and enjoy your freedom as a person. To be dead...is to be dead. Sure, there is no longer pressure and obligation, no one can truly own you anymore, but there is also no way for the supposed freedom to be enjoyed.

I think that even if you read Thistle as having died at the end, which is a perfectly valid reading ftr—he very much could be dead—you might still want to think about the issues with the narrative of a slave being "freed" only through death, when what anyone in slavery truly deserves in a just world is freedom while they are alive.

[moonspirit]

Not to be a party pooper by saying this lol, but I keep seeing a lot of blogs (aot and otherwise) that repost artists' fanart without permission. Some others repost them and give credits to the OG artist but that doesn't mean much when the OG artist has never given permission for their art to be reposted outside of where they originally shared it themselves. These blogs can easily be identified with a quick check. If they are artists themselves, it'll be obvious. If they aren't, and all the fanart on their blog is of varying art-styles, and they never have permission stated on those posts, you can be sure they stole that artwork from somewhere and then posted it on Tumblr for the engagement.

Especially if you see "idk who drew this but it's awesome!!!" that is stolen artwork lol.

[dceasesd]

if there are 1000 slaydick haters i am one of them. if there 10 slaydick haters i am one of them. if there is 1 slaydick hater i am it. if there are no slaydick haters i am dead